Month: April 2011
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List: 30 Ways to Reach First Base
Hit a single. Reach on an error. Walk on four balls. Get hit by a pitch. Catcher drops the ball after the third strike. Fan interference. Catcher interference. A pitching infraction that results in a 4th ball. A pitched ball lodges in the catcher or umpire’s mask on the third strike or fourth ball. Replacing…
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On writing tools
In my last post, I talked about my old standby writing tool, emacs, and how I’ve made a gradual break from it. So here’s what I’ve been doing. First, there was a recent stream of different full-screen writing tools dumped on the market. It’s the latest fad: some program that closes off everything but a…
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The Death of Emacs
I’ve been too busy to do anything over here, too busy and slightly sick for a few days. I’m trying to get caught up on 19 things today, and of course it’s a beautiful, sunny day out, and I think I’ve left the house once all week, so that’s beckoning me. But I thought I’d…
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World War Z
I just finished reading World War Z, which means I’m like three years late to the zombie party, right? Well, fuck you. I was like fifteen years early. I was memorizing the locations of balconies and gun-selling sporting goods stores in shopping malls in case of a Romero-like outbreak that would require me to hole…